A CMS plan to phase out a list of inpatient-only procedures has major implications for post-surgery SNF coverage.

The case illustrates how budgetary pressures facing the hospital industry prompt challenges to disadvantageous payment ...

Results published in JAMA Health Forum showed participation in the first year of a bundled payment program was associated ...

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While the federal changes directly impact people who get coverage through Medicaid and state-based exchanges, the ripple effects will be felt by everyone, health care leaders warned.

Medicare beneficiaries face higher premiums and deductibles, reduced services, and possible cuts to the program at large—but ...

Hospitals appear to be on a collision course with the Trump administration over its push to change the way Medicare pays them ...

On Jan. 1, CMS will begin implementation of a new alternative payment system for select hospitals. The Transforming Episode Accountability Model will hold participating hospitals responsible for the ...

Despite that, rates of fusion surgery in the U.S. ballooned more than 200 percent throughout the 1990s, and the number of ...

Lawmakers who voted to implement work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries next summer will have to wait another six ...

The Trump administration is moving forward with tighter oversight of Medicaid state-directed payments. CMS issued preliminary guidance on Sept. 9 on implementing the new limits tied to the One Big ...

Now awake, sliced through her core, she held baby Leon. He weighed 3 pounds, 12 ounces—almost exactly average for his ...